Head of Congressional Ethics Office Sued for Abusing Position, Accused of Assaulting Women.

IN RESPONSE TO A TWEET ABOUT HOW UNFAIRLY THE FBI IS BEING TREATED UNDER TRUMP, SOMEONE TWEETED THIS: “Nearly every examiner in an elite FBI forensic unit gave flawed testimony in almost all trials in which they offered evidence against criminal defendants over more than a two-decade period before 2000. . . . the cases include those of 32 defendants sentenced to death.”

Acting on an anonymous tip, Clearwater, Florida, code enforcement sent Gary Keener, owner of The Path Bicycle and Ride Shop, notice that he'd violated city code by installing a bike rack on the sidewalk outside his store without the required permits and inspections. Keener did not install the bike rack. The city did.

YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK: The IRS Spent $20 Million On Private Debt Collection To Bring In $7 Million.

Media, Legislators, Activists Stick By Straw Stats Produced By 9-Year-Old

WELL, OKAY THEN: Kellogg’s to replace racially insensitive Corn Pops boxes following Twitter call out.

GIVE THEM AN INCH…: Vegan Activists Bully Butcher Shop Into Placing Animal Rights Sign in Window.

#METOO: Paul Hsieh: In The War On Meat, Count Me In The Resistance.

Good Samaritans in Southern California Cited for Feeding the Homeless

The Organic Food Hoax

I BLAME THE GOVERNMENT’S CARB-HEAVY “FOOD PYRAMID” FOR THIS: More than 100 million Americans have diabetes or prediabetes.

This explains why I was such a healthy child:  Scientists Just Found a Super-Powerful New Class of Antibiotics in Dirt.

Altria will give its employees $3000 bonuses.

Related: Best Buy to hand out bonuses to workers.

I'm rereading "Economics in One Easy Lesson" so this hits home:  Time Magazine Promotes Climate Broken Window Fallacy

UNEXPECTEDLY! New Minimum Wage Laws Will Eliminate More Than 260,000 Jobs in 2018.

If only there were some kind of easy-to-understand relationship between price and demand, maybe do-gooders wouldn’t keep making the same mistakes.

YES. NEXT QUESTION? MSNBC’s Katy Tur: Am I Out Of Touch For Not Cheering A $1,000 Bonus?

Remember Hope & Change? U.S. jobless claims drop to near 45-year low.

THE BUTTERFIELD EFFECT: Minneapolis TV Station’s Reporters Puzzled by More Guns, Less Crime in the Gopher State

FOX BUTTERFIELD, IS THAT YOU? “More people are carrying guns than ever before, but the crime rate remains relatively low. . . . Minnesota’s violent crime rate hit a 50-year low in 2016, according to the FBI. And in 2017, the state set a new record for firearms background checks.”

NBC’S CHUCK TODD PROMOTES ABOLISHING THE SECOND AMENDMENT. “The left often claims their calls for gun control don’t include taking everyone’s guns and it was just extremist right-wing fantasy, but Todd made it clear that no Second Amendment was their ultimate end goal.”

As Charles Cooke wrote in 2015, “That being so, here’s the million-dollar question: What the hell are they waiting for? Go on, chaps. Bloody well do it. Seriously, try it. Start the process.”

WAIT, WHAT? Shocker! WaPo Fact Check Agrees With Rubio’s Statement On New Gun Laws.

Seems equitable to me!  

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ELIMINATIONISM: Bill Nye: Older people need to ‘die’ out before climate science can advance.

Scratch an environmentalist, and a genocidaire bleeds.

ECOLOGICAL ACTIVISTS KILL THOUSANDS OF MINKS: Once again eco-crazies promote mass slaughter — but with such goody-goody intentions!

I’LL BELIEVE IT’S A CRISIS WHEN THE PEOPLE WHO KEEP TELLING ME IT’S A CRISIS START ACTING LIKE IT’S A CRISIS: Al Gore’s Home Devours 34 Times More Electricity Than Average U.S. Household.

BURN THE WITCH: Dr. Judith Curry Explains The Reality Of Bad Climate Science And Bad Politics.

isn't this now an annual thing?  Arctic Climate Explorers give up sailing to the ‘melting’ North Pole because – there’s too much ice!

The Latest @LenaDunham Debacle: Feminist Becomes ‘Rape Truther.’ “A 17-year-old girl wakes up with a drunk 35-year-old man on top of her — allegedly, I hasten to add — and suddenly Lena Dunham forgets all about her feminist principles, accusing the girl of lying?”

WHEN WE HAVE WOMEN CEOS, SEXUAL HARASSMENT WILL BE A THING OF THE . . . PRESENT: Sexual-Harassment Claims Against a ‘She-E.O.’ Plus, this shocker: “Despite the company’s feminist branding and mission, the women who worked there felt exploited by low pay and substandard benefits.”

“Biscuit Brain”, Chelsea Handler Calls Sarah Sanders a “Biscuit Face” Because Women’s Empowerment or Something.

PERHAPS, GIVEN OUR NEW SENSITIVITY TO “TRIGGERING,” REVEALING ATTIRE IS SEXUAL HARASSMENT, OF MEN: Dem congresswoman says revealing clothing invites sexual harassment. “

TELL ME AGAIN ABOUT HOW WOMEN NEVER LIE AND YOU CAN TRUST PROSECUTORS:  Rape trial falls apart after accuser’s 40,000 texts are revealed.

These 24 Professors Are Hilarious! [Pics]

Do big-spending states have better schools?

In light of recent eventsin Florida Id say yes: Reforming school discipline: Too fast?

California teacher slams military members as ‘lowest of the low’ in classroom rant caught on video.

Is Spending $1 Trillion on Education a Waste of Money? Bryan Caplan Says Yes. 

This Sociology Professor Insists Australia Isn't a Country and Failed a Student For Saying Otherwise

 Students Walk Out on Prof Who Teaches 'Hate Speech, Blasphemy, and Pornography' for Using the N-Word

BECAUSE THEY DIDN’T WANT TO COMMIT POLITICAL SUICIDE: Why Didn’t Democrats Pass Gun Control When They Controlled Congress In Obama’s First Term?

Southern Poverty Law Center Transfers Millions in Cash to Offshore Entities.

30 Of The Best Far Side Cartoons Of All Time.

Best headline ever?Topless carwash raises cash for deputies wounded in gun battle at Rastafarian pot farm.

Because I care:  THE LINK BETWEEN FREQUENT EJACULATION AND REDUCED RISK OF PROSTATE CANCER.

since SOME of my reader has small children: EVERYTHING IS PROBLEMATICAL: The Repressive, Authoritarian Soul of “Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends.”

I’M SO OLD, I CAN REMEMBER WHEN APPLE’S SLOGAN WAS “THINK DIFFERENT:” “Apple fires Diversity Chief for suggesting that intellectual diversity is important too. Wrongthink has no place in Silicon Valley.”